Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1887-12-02
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manuriug in the growing season
is frequent cause of disease.
Seeing this some farmers utterly
neglect their trees, letting them
grow in grass, thinking thus to
save them. This is the other ex-
IRENE, and after two or three
years of fair to poor crops, the
trees, weakened by starvation, fall
an easy pray to disease. Exper-
ianced pear growers recommend
applying manure the latter part
of the summer, or in the fall, on
thr surface under the trees. 1t is
too late then for it to stimulate
growth the same season, and by
spring the manure will be so well
incorporated in the soil that the
trees will not be forced into
unnatural growth by contact with
it.
The Guernsey Breeder says soft
wood charcoal, especially willow,
ought always to be keet in the COW
stable. If COW does not look
bright give a teacupfd in her
bran or other feed and wet up. Ii
here breath is bad, her horns hot
and her nose dry, she is dyspeptic
and feverish. Give her charcoal.
If she has hollow horn, give char
coal, half a teaspoonful at each
meal for three or four days.
Treat wolf in the tail in the same
way. The wolf can't stand char
coal. 1t is an excellent thing to
give charcoal all around once a
week.
Says the Farm and Garden:
1--WE wish the reader would plant
the grape in vacant spaces around
the home place and farm buildings.
Allow them to grow on the sunny
side of the house or barn, to run
over all neglected trees, or hide the
form of some too familiar rock, to
shade some walk or sunny spot,
or grow and cover an ornamental
trellis. 1t will add beauty to your
place comfort to your home, JOY to
your children, and be source of
continual delight to every passer,
as well as of satisfaction that
dollars cannot purchase.
If the Rural New Workers.
poultry investigations have
determined one thing more
valuable than others, it is the use
of kerosene and spraying bellows
for DISCRIMINATING lice in the
easiest and cheapest way. A
poultry house ten feet square can
be thoroughly kerosened in a
minute, the fine spray penetrating
every crevice. There is no need
whatever of whitewash or the use
of any other material for this
purpose. The kerosene vapor is
effectual.
In valuable article on "Salt, its
Geology and Manufacture" by
Georfie P. Merrill, in the Novem-
Der number of The Cautauquan,
the following statistics are given:
"Of the 9S5, 4I1 tons of salt of all
kinds manufactured in the United
States during 1885, some 1000
tons only were exported, while
during the same year we imported
some 450,640 tons. Or this amount
over 10000 tons We're used in the
fisheries. In 1886 our total
product amounted to 1,079,991
tons"
The Orange Judd Company. of
New York, have just published a
manual on fences, gates and
bridges, edited by George A.
Martin. 1t aims to be practical
work, from the road barrier of
logs, brush, or sods, to the latest
improved forms of barbed wire.
1t is copiously illustrated with
representations of gates, fences,
etc, In actual use, and designs
for practical use.
Yearlings and calves should be
sheltered at night. A months
growth is easily used up by expos
ure to one cold storm. Every
effort should be used now TO
prevent loss of condition which is
very difficult to restore during
the winter. Keep on the lookout
for vermin.
As a rule. all summer pruning
checks growth, and by producing
maturity of wood and fruit buds,
induces fruitfulness. All winter
and earley spring pruning favors
growth, l. e., causes a more
exuberant growth in the parts
remaining.
During the summer a great deal
of rubbish collects in the garden,
and perhaps in the orchard. All
this ought to be raked up and
burned and otherwise disposed of. |
Ii left on the ground it furnishes
feeding for insects.
Clean up the yard and make the
farm neat. Nothing helps or
country towns more and increases
real estate value faster, than to
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